My sifu, Grandmaster Wong, is highly quotable. If you’re signed up to receive these blog posts, then you’re receiving them in a neat...

I am energy. You are energy. We are all energy. Wait, don’t go! I promise I haven’t turned into an annoying smelly hippy! Nonetheless, I...

While I used to rock n’ roll all night until the wee hours of the morning, nowadays I rebel against the Man by popping a multi-vitamin...

I wrote a blog post last year about smiling from the heart, one of the best skills that we learn in Cosmos Qigong. While I briefly...

A student in the Shaolin Wahnam Twin Cities weekly qigong class recently asked why things feel so different when practiced in class...

I’ve talked before in my blog about the importance of keeping your chest open within both qigong practice and life. Indeed, correcting...

Whether you’re learning kungfu or qigong from myself, Grandmaster Wong, or any other instructor in Shaolin Wahnam, you’ve doubtless heard...

A while ago on the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum, somebody posed the question about Qi flow and trauma. Specifically, they asked if...

What I'm about to say might upset some people, but when we are working with energy to overcome an ailment, this is an extremely important...

Within the paradigm of Chinese medicine, qigong, and intrinsic energy, there are certain concepts that are very different from how we...

Belch! Fart! Cough! Now that I have your attention, I’d like to talk about some of the, uh, less glamorous things that might happen while...

I love training Shaolin Kungfu for a myriad of reasons: the strength and poise it gives me, the way that has increased my confidence over...

Easily the hallmark of Shaolin Wahnam, and really the heart and soul of our qigong and kungfu, self-manifested Qi flow is the best skill...

Whew. That was a close one. This is what I think to myself as I settle into some strange, not quite kungfu half-stance, my arms in some...

“Can you believe it? I’m doing kungfu!” I smiled as one of my students said this last week when we were wrapping up class for the night....

While the mercury looks like it’s broken on a day like today, I promise that spring is just around the corner, and spring means classes...

Last week I talked about the facial massage and point massage that we perform at the end of our training session and how it is important...

Awhile ago I published a blog post about how we learn to stand up properly in our qigong practice and why we place so much emphasis on...

In my 13 years of training with Grandmaster Wong, I've seen a lot of incredible cases of healing for which Western medicine can offer no...

Last week I talked about signs of over-training in Shaolin Kungfu and Qigong. It is an important phenomenon to discuss, as our arts that...